📐 PDF300
Lay out a big PDF several pages to a sheet
The browser version keeps the file on your device and is the one to reach for first. This one takes over when the file is too large for that.
Open the toolRuns on our server — the file is uploaded, processed and sent back.
How it works
- Add the PDFThe file is sent to the server.
- Pick 2 or 4 per sheetReading order is kept.
- DownloadSave the laid-out file.
Questions
Yes — this one runs on a server, so the file is sent over the network and processed there. If you would rather nothing left your device, use the browser tools on the main page instead.
Neither. No account, no watermark on the output. The practical limit is your device memory — large scanned files use more of it.
Guide: laying out a large PDF
When you'd use this over the browser version
The browser N-up tool on the main page keeps the file on your own device and offers fixed layouts — 2, 4, 6 or 9 pages per sheet. This server version exists for two different situations: a PDF too large for a browser tab to comfortably hold in memory, or a layout need beyond the fixed presets.
Rows and columns instead of fixed presets
Rather than picking from a short list of layouts, this version takes a number of rows and a number of columns directly, multiplying out to however many pages per sheet that implies — a 3×2 grid for six pages, a 5×1 strip for a long thin layout, or anything else the document calls for. This is useful for non-standard needs the browser presets don't cover, such as laying out pages for a specific physical booklet format.
Reading order
Pages are placed in reading order — left to right, then row by row — matching how the browser version behaves, so the sense of "page 1 comes first" is preserved regardless of how many rows and columns are chosen.
Working out a grid
Multiply rows by columns to get the pages-per-sheet count before running it: 2 rows by 3 columns gives the same six-per-sheet result as 3 by 2, but the two produce different shapes — one wider, one taller — so the choice matters for how the content on each original page gets squeezed. A document with mostly text reads more comfortably in a layout closer to its own proportions (a tall grid for portrait pages, a wide one for landscape slides) than in a grid that forces an awkward aspect ratio onto every tile.
More questions
Mainly for layouts the fixed presets don't offer — an unusual aspect ratio, a specific booklet format, or simply more pages per sheet than the preset options allow.
At that density the result is closer to a visual index than something meant to be read closely — fine for an overview, not for body text.
Files up to 100 MB are accepted; very large files simply take longer to process.
Download and check the result — if the grid isn't what you wanted, adjust the rows and columns and run it again; nothing is changed until you download.